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  Chris Costan
Selective Biography
  Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004
Oresman Gallery, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

2003-4
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY

2000
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York City

1998
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York City

1996
Fao Gallery, New York City

1988
Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York City
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

1987
Avenue B Gallery, New York City

1984
Chicago Books, New York City

1975

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004
Inaugural Group Exhibit of Resident Artists, Stone Barn Castle Center for the Arts, Rome, NY
Art Star/ Sausage Factory, Debs and Co., New York, NY
Fundamental Change, A.D.D. Gallery, Hudson, NY

2003
Newer Genres; Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archive for Printmaking Studios, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ

1998
Spring Group Show—Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York City

1994
Drop Dead Painting—103 Reade St., New York City
Return of the Cadavre Esquis—Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, traveling to: Washington, DC Corcoran Gallery of Art (catalogue)

1991
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers—National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (catalogue)

1990
Print Selections from the Permanent Collection—Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1989
Art By Chance—Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MI (catalogue)
New Work, New York—Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, curated by Kay Larson (catalogue)


Selected Permanent Collections

Art Institute of Chicago
Newark Museum
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum


Selected Bibliography

Chris Costan, Joel Silverstein for Cover, Vol. 12, #5, October 1999
Chris Costan's Paintings Set the Imagination Awhirl, Jennifer Dalton for The TriBeCa Trib, October 1998
Art in Brief, Daniel Grant for Berkshire Eagle, July 21, 1994
New York Reviews, Ronny Cohen for Art Forum, May 1987
New York Reviews, Barry Schwabsky for Flash Art, May/June 1986


Selected Books and Catalogues

Return of the Cadavre Esquis, The Drawing Center, 1993
Apocalypse and Resurrection, essay by Douglas Maxwell, 1992
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, essays by Trudy Hansen and Eleanor Heartney, 1991
Intaglio Printmaking in the 1980's, essay by Trudy Hansen, 1990
Art by Chance, essay by George McKenna for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1989


Grants

1999
New York Foundation for the Arts
1995
Academy of Arts and Letters
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
1989 - 90
National Endowment for the Arts


Education

MA, 1974; MFA, 1975
University of Wisconsin-Madison